For the past 52 years, Fernand Nault’s version of The Nutcracker by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens has filled Montreal’s largest stage at Place des Arts during the month of December. Since 2014, Nault’s Nutcracker has also drawn audiences to the elegant Janacek Theatre in Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic, in a production
By Anne-Marie Elmby In June, nine Royal Danish Ballet dancers travelled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, organized by Cultural Adventures Copenhagen, which was founded in 2017 by former dancers Morten Eggert and Christian Hammeken. In July, another group from the company visited the Joyce Theater in New York, a trip organized by Ulrik Birkkjær (now a
By Robert Greskovic American Ballet Theatre’s new two-act production by Alexei Ratmansky of Marius Petipa’s Harlequinade — known at its 1900 premiere in St. Petersburg as Les Millions d’Arlequin, and soon thereafter as Arlekinada — has so far met with a wide range of reactions. Following its world premiere, the New York Times headlined Brian